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In a row with the ends touching. For example, The logs were laid end to end. [Mid-1800s]

from end to end. Throughout the length of something, as in We hiked the Appalachian Trail from end to end. [First half of 1600s]

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How to use end to end in a sentence

Why should it be different for technology vendors purporting to offer solutions for end-to-end enterprise systems?
Why PCs Still Matter|Kirk Schell, Executive Director, Dell|December 20, 2011|DAILY BEAST
First, as being easiest, we will deal with the end-to-end joining of two tubes of similar glass.
A Handbook of Laboratory Glass-Blowing|Bernard D. Bolas
In their arrangement the built-in beds were in the arbor houses placed generally end-to-end along two or three sides.
Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century|Henry Chandlee Forman
Whether there is occlusion or not after end-to-end suturing depends largely on the skill of the surgeon.
The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation|Austin O'Malley

These usually result from direct violence or from end-to-end pressure.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition.|Alexander Miles
Murphy has practised resection of cicatricial or atrophied portions of the cauda, with end-to-end suture.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition.|Alexander Miles